While other high school students are going to the beach and catching some sun, Heather Sulkowski’s prospective volleyball girls are hard at work getting ready for the fall. The girls who will be trying out for the volleyball team in the fall are sharpening their skills with travel ball this summer.

Since this is probably the first time many of us are meeting, please allow me to introduce myself. I’m Jon Shumake, and I will be covering sports for The Baker County Press beginning in July.

I was born and raised on Jacksonville’s Westside and I have called Whitehouse my home for my entire life. I attended Baldwin Middle-Senior High School for most my middle and high school career, and graduated in 2008.